The role of general and number-specific order processing in adults’ arithmetic performance
| Autor: | Helene De Vos, Delphine Sasanguie, Wim Gevers, Bert Reynvoet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Far distance 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles arithmetic 050105 experimental psychology Order processing 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Serial scanning serial scanning Order (business) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Arithmetic Psychology associations 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Associative property |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cognitive psychology, 29 (4 |
| ISSN: | 2044-592X 2044-5911 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/20445911.2017.1282490 |
| Popis: | Digit order processing is highly related to individual differences in arithmetic performance. To examine whether serial scanning or associative mechanisms underlie order processing, order tasks (i.e. deciding whether three digits were presented in an order or not) were administered in two experiments. In the first experiment, digits were presented in different directions namely ascending, descending and non-ordered. For each direction, close and far distance sequences were presented. Results revealed reversed distance effects for ordered sequences, but ascending sequences elicited faster performance and stronger reversed distance effects than descending sequences, suggesting that associative mechanisms underlie order processing. In the second experiment, it was examined to which extent the relation between order processing and arithmetic is number-specific by presenting order tasks with digits, letters and months. In all order tasks similar distance effects were observed and similar relations with arithmetic were found, suggesting that both general associative mechanisms and number-specific mechanisms contribute to arithmetic. SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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